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Other delegates last week were eagerly awaiting the results of a current nation-wide survey by the U. S. Office of Education to locate all unemployed deaf persons, find jobs for them in CWA and PWA, check up on the success of deaf persons in various occupations...
...suffers no such disadvantage, thanks to the fertility of the New Deal in producing new agencies and new jobs. In addition to about 75,000 regular Government jobs which were Mr. Farley's to give away, he got about 75,000 more as a result of the AAA, PWA, NRA, HOLC, etc. A little wire-pulling from the Post Office Department was all that was necessary to convince Congress that it would be best. because of the emergency, to put this new army of workers entirely beyond the reach of Civil Service requirements. Some high-minded New Dealers like...
...Flush with a $37,500,000 PWA loan, the Port of New York Authority is hard at work on a second vehicular tube to New Jersey, the Midtown Hudson Tunnel at 39th Street. Eased into place by tugs last week was a bright red. hollow cube of steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...
Land-planes have flown faster than 500 m.p.h.. seaplanes better than 400 m.p.h. To make flying speeds of 500 m.p.h. possible as well as safe, Secretary Ickes last week allotted $478,300 of PWA funds to construct a high-speed wind tunnel at the laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va. Planned for completion within a year, the 154-ft. tunnel will be made of reinforced concrete with steel-plated walls. Through its test chamber, 8-ft, in diameter, fans driven by 8,000-h.p. motors will hurl a 500-m.p.h. hurricane. Said...
...home the President extracted his biggest piece of 1934 recovery legislation-the National Housing Act. Of the 9,500,000 persons in the U. S. still out of jobs, more than half used to work in the capital goods industries (machinery, structural steel, lumber, ships, cement, locomotives, stone). PWA was to have provided relief for the heavy industries but it turned out to be too costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital goods. With the construction of homes...